IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71891
accession number:	C.1378-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue and manganese-purple. Octagonal with two suspension holes at the top. Painted on the front with a simplified version of the arms of the Worshipfull Company of Apothecaries with the motto 'OPIFERQUE PER ORBEM DICOR' in manganese on a curved ribbon below
title:	pill-tile

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Said to have come from Burnham Hall, near Wells, Norfolk; Mr Elliott, an antique dealer at Heacham, near Hunstanton, Norfolk, from whom bought on 17 April, 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71891


SUBJECTS
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coat-of-arms
coat-of-arms



CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: English delftware
category: pharmaceutical ware

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1775
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1775
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: unidentified London pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 1.7

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 29.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 23.8



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	English Delftware, Engels Delfts Aardewerk
title:	Curious Variations on Ceramic Themes, Geometrical and Zoomorphic Forms
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
The Armorial London Delft of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
English Delftware, Engels Delfts Aardewerk
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Apothecaries Pill Tiles
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